The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-08-23
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

time for dinner-the bears dinner
Judge
The bodies Of about six hundred
Chinese are ABOUT to be disinterred at
San Francisco and shipped to China by
steamer for final interment.
"A German mathematician has cal
culated that the snowfall of Central
Germany from December 10 to %
weighed no less than 1000. 900 tons in
the area between 500 and 52.5o north
latitude and between 70 and 1Ss east
longitude.
Hot water from artesian wells is
one of the looked-for boOns. 1t is
thought reasonable to suppose that hot
water can be obtained almost any where
if wells are bored deep enough. the fes-
sibility of this source of supply being
already largely demonstrated by the
success of the great artesian well pro-
ject at Pesth.
Bill Johnson, a stage robber, now
languishing in an Idaho Jail. speaks
despondently of the business as fol-
lows: ''Stage after stage has been held
up without getting a nickel, and 1t
seems as though all the money in the
country was in the hands of the bank
ers, the railroad managers or the ex-
press companies"
"A Tennessee newspaper contains
the following: 1--WE are rejoiced to
know that j. G. Rackhelt, that prince
of gentlemen and car of culture. has
secured the contract for building a
plank sidewalk in front of the Gibbons
block. He is a gentleman of the old
school and knows a good piece of plank
when he sees it "-Phiiadelphia Press.
Two skeletons dug up several
months ago in cave near Orneau, in
Belgium, appear to belong to the oldest
race of which any record exists. These
prehistoric individuals were contem-
porary with the mammoth, and in
habited the country before the great
ice age. They were short and thick
set, with broad shoulders, supporting a
long and narrow head, with an ex-
tremely low forehead.
Three weeks ago j. F. Zurich, of
Red Bank, \. j., placed basket of
eggs on his stove extension. He had
no occasion to use any of them, and in
advertently kept his stove at an even
heat both night and day. The room
served rs shop and living room.
Yesterday he was surprised at peep"
from his egg basket. He found twelve
as pretty little chicks as were ever
Matched by an old hen.
1T has been demonstrated again and
again that almost one-half the units
of heat in a given quantity of coal are
wasted in one way and another rs it is
now used. owing partly to the impossi-
bility of gauging the supply of healthy
the requirements of the moment, but
more to imperfect combustion. 1t is
capable of scientific proof, too, that
nearly all this waste can be avoided by
converting the coal into gas before us
ing it as heat supplY.-Proridence
Journal.
The International Institute of Sta
tistics has just had a convention in
Rome, and one of the most interesting
points it established is the fact that the
death rate in Europe has been very
much reduced during the past century.
People are living longer and are more
healthy than they were one hundred
years ago, and this happy result is at
tributed TO the progress of medical
science. and especially to the energetic
sanitary measures that have been
adopted everywhere.-Boston Budget.
"A shrewd Chinaman is importing
from Germany cast-off horse shoes, of
which certain Berlin firms are about to
ship some three or four thousand tons.
The "heathen Chinee" has found out
that the wrought iron of which horse
shoes are made, owing to the constant
and even hammering on the pavement,
together with the equine animal heat,
gradually assumes the hardness of
steel, combined with great malability
and elasticity. qualities which fit them
more especially for the manufacture of
knives and sword blades.
An American writer who is smart
at figures has estimated that the peo-
pie of the United States could feed
themselves upon good mixed diet,
including meats, tea and coffee at a
cost of about twenty-four cents per day
for each person. Vegetarians have
demonstrated the possibility of main
tanning health upon sixpence or twelve
cents worth of food per day. At the
other extreme we find many fashion
able hotels charging from five to ten
dollars per day for three meals and a
bed.-FoOtc'< Heath Monthly.
The living skeleton and we'll
known museum specimen. lately de-
y I. & Il. S.,